OT pour les Francaise: 3G pay-as-you-go in France?

[Luis]

Hiya,

Be wary of point 2: Some phones will not allow you to tether (ie: use  
as a modem) the phone to your Laptop (notably Blackberries).

Cheers,

Luis.


On 26 May 2009, at 13:12, David Bovill wrote:

> I'd like to know as well. A couple of related things to test out:
>
>    1. You should be able to put a normal mobile phone SIM into the  
> USB stick
>    with a data-plan.
>    2. Vodafone are abolishing roaming charges in June
>    3. AFAIK (I've asked the Vodaphone tech department, but not  
> tested) -
>    there is no real speed difference between using a bluetooth-3G- 
> mobile phone
>    set up and a 3G USB stick?
>
>
> 2009/5/26 Ben Rubinstein <benr_mc at cogapp.com>
>
>> I'm abusing the list to contact some of our French correspondents.
>>  Apologies to everyone else... and apologies to French speakers  
>> for my
>> appalling Franglaise.
>>
>> I'm wondering whether it's possible to get hold of 3G data stick -  
>> or the
>> SIM to go into one - for use in France, on a "pay-as-you-go"  
>> basis, rather
>> than a long term contract.  In the UK, these 3G USB data modems,  
>> initially
>> only available on quite long contracts with substantial monthly
>> subscription, then became available under pay-as-you-go for about  
>> £100 (then
>> about €130) and have since been dropping repeatedly so that you  
>> can now get
>> one for about €25.
>>
>> Theoretically the ones I have should work in France, but paying a  
>> very high
>> premium over the domestica data rate - in practise I've never been  
>> able to
>> make them work at all.  So I'm wondering about the possibility of  
>> getting a
>> French one to use while I'm in France - but I'm there often enough/ 
>> long
>> enough to justify doing so on a contract.
>>
>> I know that the mobile/cellular telephony market works very  
>> differently in
>> different countries; are pay-as-you SIM cards (with 3G data  
>> access) or modem
>> sticks available?  And are they truly pay-as-you-go, or (as seems  
>> to be the
>> case in the US) somewhat lightweight contracts, where you have to  
>> top up by
>> a minimum amount every few months otherwise it stops working  
>> altogether?
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